Damn! I love the way you think! So, you gave Mrs Inor veto power?Originally Posted by Inor
Now that we have a few years of experience doing the real homestead thing under our belts, I was doing some thinking...
Raising meat animals is insanely easy and very little work. We have about 10 minutes, twice per day to throw out some feed or a couple flakes of hay and top off the water. Beyond that, there is basically nothing else to do until it is time to process them. Even that, is not much work.
Vegetables gardens, on the other hand, are a crazy amount of work. You have several days at the beginning of the season getting everything ready to plant and doing the planting. Then you have a few hours every week just weeding them. Finally, at the end of the year, you several more days harvesting, canning (or otherwise preserving) and getting the gardens all cleaned up for winter. And after all that, you are left with a bunch of shitty vegetables you have to eat!
I suggested to Mrs Inor that it would be a much better use of our time to just grow a few onions and hot peppers this year. Then we would have the benefit of living on a diet consisting of just meat, onions and hot peppers. It seems like a great idea to me. She vetoed it...
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